against the school district. and that 77-page report made it very clear that school administrators and school police knew about unsafe practices and according to the report it stated that those unsafety measures were not taken seriously. and that they were not placed any urgency on fixing those problems. and so these parents came before the school board and expressed their outrage, saying that they don't want to send their children back to school to an unsafe campus, to an unsafe building, and some of the students expressed the same thing. take a listen. >> you need to clean house. you need to start from zero. hire experienced, trained officers. my daughter laila is still

terrified of the thought of having to return to school in a few short weeks that she comes to tears. what will you tell her? i can assure you that my children are not mentally prepared to return to campus and i husband and i are unwilling to send them. >> reporter: now, the school administration said they are considering virtual schooling, but that, of course, still needs to be determined. as for the latest on the investigation, texas department of public safety telling cnn that its ongoing criminal, and the key word here is criminal, its ongoing criminal investigation is also examining the actions of law enforcement. and, kaitlan, that's important because we hadn't heard this before from the lead investigating agency. and so the latest is that they are looking at the actions or in this case the inaction of law enforcement, but as you know, it would be up to the d.a. to charge anyone in this case. >> yeah, and i know the families

want to know exactly what's happening there. last night seeing that 8-year-old girl come up and talk about how she was wearing the same dress she had been wearing the day of this shooting as her classmates were killed, rosa, thank you for bringing us the latest on that and thank you for being there at that meeting. joining us now angel garza and belinda irene arola. i know you were both at this school board meeting, we just reported on. what was it like to be inside there? >> there was a lot of hostility, animosity, just being in the area, or being in the school, just reminds us and makes us relive that day, and it's hard. i mean, we're up there fighting for our children, but this is very hard for us.

>> belinda, how far did they go in addressing some of the concerns and questions that you have still? >> they didn't go very far. again, it's another frustration because we were asking what their plans were, and all they kept telling us is they're w working on this and working on that, but they weren't specific as to what they were working on. they did say they were working on certain -- on getting the fences and getting locks, new locks, new doors, but they didn't give us a timeline, they didn't give us what their -- what exactly they were planning to do. a lot of the questions that were asked as far as the virtual or any kind of questions that we asked, they kind of won't around it saying they were working on it and that they expected things to be done by the time kids went back to school. so all of us just all in

agreement that they can't expect to do something that we wanted done, like there was no guarantee that it would be done, so they -- we tell them that we will not send our children back to school, we would start a walkout. >> you told me that last week. anything change your mind on that, angel, you don't want to send the kids back to school, you're going to call for the walkout still? >> nothing -- nothing they said yesterday was convincing at all to any of the parents. i don't think that meeting persuaded anyone more than what they were -- my son is deaf in thely ndefinitely not going. he'll be home schooled. it seems like they're trying -- they say they're trying to fix things or give us a sense of direction or sense of hope or

anything, but every time they try, they just simply fail. it is just like a -- like beating us while we're down. we're looking for hope and none is given. >> you said as of now your decision is to homeschool your son. why? >> my son -- my son in particular is going through his own struggles since losing his sister. our main focus and most of the parents' focus is just keeping our family safe right now. he -- it is hard to -- it is hard for any parent to sit here and trust these people that they

can drop their kid off at school in the morning and they're going to be there to pick them up when they get out of work. >> i'm raising my granddaughter and she is just terrified to go back to school, even though it has been two months since the situation happened, she went to robb last year, and she was at a different school this past year, but she just -- she keeps just repeatedly telling us she does not want to go back to school, if she can do online classes. we looked into doing k-12, only because we -- i'm not going to send her back knowing that the school is secure and i did address dr. harold yesterday and asked him, it is not so much the security, but the kids that are afraid to go back to school, do you have something planned, in place, for kids that have to go back to school regardless that are afraid to go back to school.

>> last time you told me something and i heard from a lot of people who said that it really broke their hearts that you're just not getting the information. you're still not getting the information you want and you feel you need and you felt like you were getting more information about the highland park shooting in illinois than the massacre that took your own daughter away. is that still the case? are you still not getting the information you want? >> i believe most of us parents are still kind of in the dark about the whole situation. it's humiliating to see all these agencies fight and point the finger at each other, and no one wanting to take the blame for what happened, no one wanting to step up and be a leader, you know, and say, hey,

we messed up. that means something to us. the fact that everybody's just running from the situation is humiliating, people keep or say information and they say it is to help us in any type of way, that's not the truth. if they have any information or they want to keep any information that should be given to us, whether we should be able to detain that or make that public or not, just keeping us in the dark is -- we lost our chi children. there's no other way to put that. >> angel, berlinda, we thank you again for being with us this morning, sharing your thoughts, letting us know what you are going through. i know how hard it is and just know we're thinking about you. >> thank you so much.

>> thank you. >> you know, to hear from both of them, they were at this meeting, part of the reason for this meeting was to tell parents the plan for getting their kids back to school, and to hear from them, they're just not hearing what they feel they need to hear in order to send their son and their granddaughter back safely. >> it is amazing to me how eloquent these parents have been since this happened, and he is one of the ones i watch every interview he does almost, and he is just able to sum up exactly what's going on. and right there saying, you know, we lost our kids, and none of these people can even take an ounce of responsibility for what happened that day. clearly the response was a disaster and no one is taking responsibility, even though they're dealing with pain and grief in a different stratosphere and no one will take responsibility for what happened. >> he sat here a week ago and after the interview, i asked him where do you find the strength to keep on talking like this,

and having these discussions. and he told me he gets the strength from amerie who was his daughter that he lost. that's what's giving him -- that's what giving them the strength now to get through this. but it is remarkable to say the least. >> it is sad that parents have to keep coming out and speaking out about the issues they're facing instead of being able to grieve on their own. they have to come out and publicly call on these officials to take action, to have accountability, and to change the security at the school of what's going on because they don't feel comfortable sending their kids there. >> it is rough. >> it is. it is a lot to take in, in the morning. but it ispers important to talk about that. we're going to talk about the uk having its highest temperature ever, 102.4 degrees recorded this morning amid a brutal heat wave that is gripping countries not just in the uk, all over the world. london's heat wave, though, is so stifling, the guards at buckingham palace broke their stoic stance to drink some

water, it is that hot. it is worth noting that less than 1% of households in the uk have air conditioning. cnn's senior national correspondent sara sidner joins us live from london. sara, as i just laid out while you were standing in the heat, i know it is a million degrees there, tell us how it feels and what are people saying about this? >> reporter: kaitlan, it is a scorcher. and, by the way, since this morning, we now have an official temperature from the met of 40 degrees celsius, that's 104 degrees fahrenheit. it is provisionally the hottest day that this country has ever experienced. so when you put that into context, you know in a place like arizona, this would be like a cool summer day at 104. but here, the infrastructure and the people are simply not used to it and so the government has asked people to do a couple of things, actually they said do

nothing, go nowhere. it is rare to hear a government say that to its people, especially at a time when the economy is a bit in a mess, you got inflation, you want people to be able to go to work, but they have stopped the trains from one of the busiest train depots in the entire country from going to the north. those are canceled for several hours today. why is that? because the infrastructure can't handle it. they're actually worried that the rail lines will buckle under this heat, and trains have slowed their speed to try to stop the friction from creating a problem. we also know that one of the airports, luton, has stopped one of the -- they have sort of stopped traffic there because the runway has buckled because of this extreme heat. it is really remarkable what happens in a place that is not used to having this kind of heat, when you or i might be used to it in the states. this isn't all that unusual for a late july day, but here, there

really are many, many problems and when your body is not used to it, that is a huge problem too. you mentioned 1% of the households in this nation have air conditioning. why is that? because they haven't needed it. it is usually, you know, soggy and rainy here with some clouds. now it is perfect sun. it is actually a beautiful day. but it is terribly hot. and people here, the infrastructure just not used to it. i love the fact that the government is saying go nowhere, do nothing. and what am i doing, kaitlan? standing in the heat. what is going on here. come on, cnn. >> can we get her a fan or something? what can we send you? i'll send you the fans s we hav outside the tent at the white house. they're powerful. >> reporter: excellent. >> thank you for being in the heat for us and we'll come back to you and check in with you. we're talking about uvalde just a moment ago. but in indiana, one legally armed bystander is now being credited with doing what 400

officers at a school in uvalde did not do. stopping a mass shooting inside a mall within moments of it starting. and raising questions about this whole good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun debate. so joining us now to talk about that debate is cnn political commentator michael smerconish and anchor. thank you for being here with us this morning. and i do wonder, what do you say to people, because it does raise that question, it does give people an argument there when they talk about how it is effective to have someone with a gun there, given this guy was able to stop the shooter in indiana within minutes of the shooting starting. >> 22-year-old elijah dicken, what a hero, can you imagine, kaitlan, the poise and the courage required of him? even if he's armed, i think until you're in that circumstance, you wouldn't know how you would respond if given the opportunity, and according to law enforcement within two minutes he was able to subdue, to kill that attacker or it

would have been a hell of a lot worse. it is a very rare outcome. in other words, we don't often get the hollywood ending. "the new york times," within the last 30 days, published a look at two decades worth of data. i think it was 433 active shooter situations. most of them end before the police arrive, and they end with the suicide of the attacker himself or because he's fled the scene. of the 433 they scrutinized, only 12 ended like this one ended. so all praise to the 22-year-old hero in indianapolis, but it also raises questions of if everyone was now carrying a gun, would there be cross fire, would more people get lost as a result of secondary shootings? i'm not saying it is the outcome where everybody should be armed, but at least in this case it was a hell of a lot better than the alternative. final thought if i may, in uvalde, of course, we had 376 good guys with guns and nobody

acted. >> two things can be true. one of them can be what a hero in indiana, what an amazing outcome there, you know, obviously people still did die there, but not as deadly as it could have been, but the statistics show not something that every time necessarily is available. michael, new cnn polling out shows the president's having some trouble connecting with the american people on the issues that matter most to the american people. people say inflation is their top concern right now. and his ratings on inflation, handling the economy, very, very low. >> and, you know, sara was just offering that report about what is going on all around the globe in terms of this excess heat. we have got a fundamental problem, an existential problem with climate change and yet i think that, which is going to matter most, when americans go to cast ballots in the midterm are going to be gas prices and

inflation and it is hard to see how that's going to abruptly shift in the president's direction between now and november. john, i also wonder if maybe the days of presidents getting a boost and then having a decline are over. because donald trump was, if nothing else, he was consistent, he was consistently underwater. and now too president biden appears so. i don't know if there would be a rally around the flag moment. god forbid there were some type of catastrophe, i don't know if that could change the arc of where the president's numbers are right now. the only thing that might help him is an early trump announcement in which circumstance may be the midterm now becomes a referendum again on donald trump and less about the biden administration. >> and that is what we have heard from some trump advisers who are advising the former president, don't announce until after the midterms because you don't want to be able to give democrats a boost by letting them run on the fact that you are running again. so he's kind of been weighing that is what wesmerconish, than

you. >> i think as he gets beat up in the january 6th hearings and here comes another one in primetime on thursday night, i think in part is he wants to freeze ron desantis, but, kaitlan, i think another part is he wants the legal protection that he perceives would come with him now being an announced candidate because maybe it would give pause to merrick garland that otherwise wouldn't exist. >> that raises some good questions, we will see where he comes down on when he is expected to announce that once he's made a decision. michael, thank you so much for joining us on all these very important topics. >> see you guys. we also have new reporting this morning that president biden may be prepared to declare a climate emergency after he warned he would take strong executive action. gas prices are once again falling this morning, very good news if you're on your way to fill up your car and listening to us, marking 35 straight days

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to a different product so we go to door number three, shrinkflation, they lessen the amount of things inside the package or shrink the size and don't lower the price. where are we seeing this? we found some products, you see the charmin here, if you look closely, you'll see the size of the rolls went from 396 sheets to 366 sheets. you wouldn't know it, it says super mega on top. sparkle paper towels, they lopped off six seheets from evey roll, going from 116 to 110. dawn dish washing liquid, 6 ounces for the smallest size, both bottles scanned at $1.79 at cvs in may. the price did not go down on that one. and here is my favorite, gatorade, it grew a waistline here, it used to be 32 ounces it now 28 ounces, but it is the same height, you see it there. i did contact all the manufacturers for these products and they didn't get back to me

except for pepsico, the maker of gatorade. they said the 28 ounce bottle you see here is not new, the 32-ounce bottle is being phased out and the reason for the new shape is you can hold it better, but they say that it is not because there is the new -- the new shape is not because of any economic conditions going on. john and kaitlan. >> slimming container there on the gatorade. all right, you think it is happening, it really is. appreciate it. >> your mind is not playing tri tricks on you. >> maybe, but not in this case. this morning, pressure at the pump is easing for millions of americans as gas prices have now fallen for the 35th straight day. the nationwide average now sits at $4.50 per gallon. that is going to make my dad very happy. this after the cost of a gallon was close to $5 last month. cnn's pete muntean is live in alexandria, virginia, where he always is, except when he's at the airport. pete, are you seeing some happy customers showing up this

morning? >> 17 states, kaitlan, have seen their gas prices drop 50 cents in the last week. virginia is one of them. $4.69 here at our station that we always go to in alexandria. that is above the national average, which is now $4.50 according to aaa. dropped two cents overnight. wasn't that long ago that we were here talking, wondering when gas prices would go above $4.50. let's think back to where we were a month ago. gas prices were $4.98 on average. they really peaked on june 14th, $5.02. the most common price in the u.s. right now, according to gas buddy, you'll see this a lot, $3.99. what is going on here? the reasons the price of oil is dropping because there are these fears about a global recession, and that could possibly crater demand for gas. i want you to listen to drivers now, who realize big picture, this bad economic news may be a

bit of good news in the short-term for them. >> right now it is ridiculous at this time of moment. my husband being a truck driver, so right now he's paying, like, $600, $700 a gallon, you know, traveling back and forth. >> i'm glad the gas went down. it is making people feel a whole lot better. >> how much lower do you want it to go? >> i would say probably in the $2 range. about $2.50, $2.75, i think people would be satisfied. >> reporter: okay, $2.50 and $2.75, pretty unlikely. a year go we saw gas at $3.17 for a gallon of regular on average, though patrick duhan of gas buddy says we could see gas slip by another dime, $3.49 on average, by the end of this week. the biden administration trying to take a lot of credit for this.

they tapped the strategic petroleum reserve, they put more pressure on oil companies, one of the top economice advisers said $4 is good, but not good enough. we'll see it go down more if the administration gets its way. >> you cannot overstate how much the white house is watching the numbers, they check them every single day, multiple times a day. pete muntean, thank you so much. new reporting overnight says president biden could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week. joining us now is the special presidential coordinator for international energy affairs. thank you so much for being with us. what would declaring a climate emergency give the president the power to do? >> well, first, good morning and thank you for having me. well, i think the president was very clear that if the senate wouldn't act that he would. i think climate -- the challenge that we're facing globally on climate is real and we need to take whatever measures we can to

accelerate all the work that we're doing to make sure that we can address the climate emergency that -- the crisis that the world is facing, that the planet is facing. i want to go back to something you said on your show a moment ago, we have to do two things at the same time, that's what the president wants to do, accelerate the energy transition to get us moving a lot faster on deployment of renewable energy, on manufacturing of and deployment of electric vehicles, but at the same time we recognize that we need to do that in a way that still allows for lower prices at the pump, lower prices of energy overall, electricity, gasoline, diesel. what we're seeing is that these actions that the president takes doesn't always translate into results on the same day, but look where we are today compared to where we were. oil prices have come down 20% from 120 to 100. gasoline prices are now most americans, the most common price is below $4, $3.99.

i think those prices as a result of the president's acts will be coming down a little bit more over the next few days and weeks. and that means domestic work on the domestic side, inside the united states, as well as the global leadership and the work that the president is doing overseas. >> if he were to declare a climate emergency, one of the things "the washington post" notes is that it might be able to allow him to limit drilling in the united states. might be able to limit petroleum exports. how would that help lower gas prices? >> well, i think these are all speculations in the press about what the president is going to be doing or what he's going to be announcing. let's just wait and see what the president says. i think we have been clear that we want to see the u.s. industry increase oil production and in fact we have already seen us go to 12 million barrels a day and you'll see the numbers go to a peak, to an all time record early next year. it is about making a choice

between what is the short-term and the medium term, so that we can make sure we have enough oil and gas to support us through the transition, and what are the kind of steps that we don't want the oil and gas industry to take that would have long-term consequences when we don't want new major projects that would take 20, 30 years to become profitable. so we have to make that differentiation, to make sure that the american consumer has what it needs to grow, to grow our economy, and the global economy, but not take steps and endanger the climate work that we're trying to do to make sure that we're in a better footing to accelerate the transition. >> understood. the new cnn poll out overnight found that 75% of americans say that inflation and the cost of living is their top economic problem. gas prices play a huge role in that. and when it comes to inflation, just 25% approve of the job that president biden is doing on it.

why do you think that number is so low? >> well, because i think that these are the kinds of things that takes time to mature and i think we're all empathetic, we all suffer through the higher prices. the president is very aware. i can tell you in every conversation he's very focused on bringing down prices. i don't think he's too worried about popularity. i think he's worried about the prices that people pay. that's what he is concerned about. and as inflation has risen and as prices come up, he's been very focused, i can tell you extraordinarily focused on bringing the prices down. i think that that's what i'm referring to. a month ago, you know, oil prices were so high, gasoline prices, that doesn't just affect what we do at the pump, that affects food prices. we're not a farm to table, we're a farm to truck to table. so when you bring down the prices of energy, that has -- got to give it a little bit of time. this is the fastest decline in prices we have seen in over a decade. so now i think we need to give

it a little bit of time to mature and get into the economy because this could have an effect on food prices, has an effect on all these other things that energy has such a great impact on. >> we just reported, 35-straight days of a decline in gas prices and it is something that is welcome there, as you well know, the price is still well higher than last year. still a lot further to go. you were part of the president's trip to saudi arabia. where the president, you know, did fist bump the saudi crown prince, which there are questions about, there are human rights concerns about that. but that aside, when can consumers start to see deliverables from the saudis from this trip? >> well, first, i'm not going to fist bump -- i was in the room, and the president raised both khashoggi murder as well as overall human rights concerns

and expressed it very candidly, openly and directly. as far as deliverables, the president's flight to saudi arabia was itself a deliverable of monumental importance. this is the first president to drive from israel directly to jeddah, saudi announced they're opening the skies. we have filled a vacuum to make sure that china and russia don't enter the middle east. you talk about human rights a lot over the last several days, but thousands of people died in the ywar in yemen over the last several years and through the negotiations that preceded this trip we had the longest period of time of no hostilities in yemen and we just announced that is going to be extended. we have talked about -- the efforts vis-a-vis iran. these are significant deliverables. but, again, we saw the deliverable even before the trip happened. before the trip was announced, before the president's trip was announced, opec plus had moved away from its policy over the previous nine months, since the beginning of the war in ukraine, the invasion that caused a lot

of this spike, and announced there were increasing production in august, in july and august. that is part of the reason that the prices have come down. and, look, we met with saudi arabia, we met with the other gulf countries who are major producers, but we didn't meet with opec. let's see what happens when opec meets next so that he we can fi out what happens over the fall. i have every expectation and confident that as a result of the visit, as a ruesult of the president's conversations there we'll see a little bit more movement. we have to remember, we're in a period where there is a major war in europe, involved in -- with the third largest oil producer in the world that likes to use its oil and gas as a weapon against its neighbors, and against the entire world . so this is not just a domestic issue, not just an opec issue, we're faced with putin, who will do anything against the rest of the world. and that's part of what the president's doing in uniting the major economies around the

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threat to democracy and the power he yields over his minions wasn't so disturbing, it would be hilarious. >> joining us now to discuss what this means for the future of the gop is peter winner, he served in multiple republican administrations. peter, thank you for joining us this morning. and before we get to joe rogan, i want to get your take on what is happening with dr. oz, because he has had this interesting campaign trajectory, where he started out completely embracing trump, wrapping himself in the former president, touting his endorsement everywhere he went, to being much quieter about the support he's getting from trump now that he's actually secured the gop nomination. >> yeah, that's because he's now in a general election rather than a primary. because maga's appeal is in the republican party, not necessarily in the country at large. and that fund-raising letter he sent out about, you know, maga dying, maybe his campaign is

dying, he's been outraised 9 to 1, this is a panicked fund-raising appeal, trying to get some -- inject fuel into the base of the party to get more money. but unfortunately from my perspective as a conservative maga is alive and well, at least in the republican party, whether it is alive and well in the rest of the country we'll see. >> and on the subject of eyebrow raising, there was something else joe rogan said that caught your attention. >> joe rogan has a massive audience. he's never perfectly aligned with trump or anything like that, maybe that's something that people do think, but, peter, listen to this other comment that joe rogan made. >> -- put his name in briefings, multiple times, to keep them interested. >> the formula was, like, two good, one bad. if they give him bad news, you start with good news. so they go, this is going well, everybody is thrilled with you about this, here's a bad thing

also, people love you for this, like, so that's how you -- that's how they would tell him bad news. they couldn't just go here's a bunch of bad news. >> of course, he's a man baby. >> that's joe rogan there calling trump a, quote, man baby. i wonder, obviously, joe rogan is a podcast host. but what do you read into this, because he does have a pretty big republican maga-leaning audience. >> yeah, i mean, he's generous. he's not steve bannon. he does have some appeal. he's never been a trump acolyte, like a lot of other people have, and he's criticized trump before and i assume he'll criticize him again. trump is not beyond criticism, and there is weakening of support for trump. sarah longwell hosts focus groups for trump supporters and she's noted a marked decline in support for trump since the january 6th committee hearings.

so it isn't as if trump is beyond criticism, but on the other hand, he's still the dominant figure in the republican party. the other thing i would say is that trump's grip on the party is weakening, but the trump fiction of the party, the magaf magafication spreading. you see it across the country, the entire fox lineup, the house leadership, it still has a grip on the party, zdoesn't mean it can't be broken, but we're a long, long way from that. >> well, we'll be waiting to see what happens and what the influence looks like. peter, thank you so much for joining us this morning with your insight. >> you bet. nice to be with you. meanwhile, russian president putin is replacing the head of russia's space agency with a weapons guru, the retired astronaut scott kelly is going to join us live with his reaction and i promise you are

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there has been a major shake-up in the russian space agency. dmitry regozan has been removed from his role and replaced by the former head of russia's weapons industry. regozan who threatened to leave the international space station is known for his very public clashes with elon musk and scott kelly. kelly did not hide his feelings saying i heard tasty and that's it may be hiring. tasty is russia's rebrand of mcdonald's after the fast food giant left the country. joining us now is former astronaut, retired captain, scott kelly. tell us how you really feel about his removal. >> well, kaitlan, i was happy to see him be removed, i think he has no business being the head

of the agency like roscosmos has been for the peaceful exploration of space and international cooperation in space like nasa has been, so when i saw him get fired, i guess, i was happy to see that. having said that, you know, it is quite possible that he lands on his feet somewhere else and hopefully not in a position that would, you know, potentially be more dangerous. >> he has been willing to, you know, engage in public clashes. that's something that putin likes. i wonder, what do you read into his removal of what led to this and why this is finally happening without having all the insight into what is happening inside the kremlin? >> you know, i don't really know. it is hard to say. i hope it is because of his performance, and his bluster and his, you know, threats. he threatens nuclear war.

the head of the russian space agency threatens to use nuclear weapons against, you know, other nations. and i just find that unacceptable. i find it completely unacceptable, he threatened to leave an american astronaut on board the space station, so much so that they produced this high quality video demonstrating it. also the space station was recently used for political messaging, promoting the war and in my view genocide in ukraine. so, you know, maybe it is that. i don't know, really. i hope it is not that they're just thinking of moving him, you know, promoting him up the chain. >> and what do you know about his replacement, uri borisov? >> i don't know a lot, but he does come from the weapons industry, which, to me, is not probably the best place to have

a person that is responsible for the peaceful exploration of space. i understand roscosmos is different than nasa, its charter is different. but at the same time i would have much rather have seen a science, more science-minded person than a, i guess, a war-minded person leading roscosmos. >> because things got so bad, not that they were ever necessarily great, between you and rogozin that you blocked him on twitter or he blocked you. is that right? >> no. he blocked me. i never blocked anybody. and to be honest with you, this is the first time i've gotten -- ever got nten into any kind of twitter spat with anyone, but i thought it was necessary to call him out and let him know that, you know, people in the west were watching, and listening to what he had to say and wasn't happy about it. so, yeah, i blocked him. i sent my medal back to russia,

to the u.s. embassy in washington -- the russian embassy in washington, d.c., a medal that was awarded to me by dmitry medvedev. our support for anything russian these days, i think it just shows that or demonstrates we could, you know, potentially be okay with what they're doing, which is absolutely not the case. >> scott kelly, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, kaitlan. we also have new cnn reporting this morning on an unpublished memoir from emmett till's accuser. it is now raising new questions about the teen's murder. e sleep number 360 smart bed can gently raise your partner's head to help. ah...that's better. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. save 40% on n the sleep number 0 special edition smart bed queen now ononly $1,499. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis persists... put it in check with rinvoq,

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galvanize the civil rights movement. this comes less than one month after an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for her and two others was found in a mississippi courthouse basement. cnn's ryan young joins us with the latest on this. what have you learned? >> it was just last month we were talking to you about the family going to a courthouse in mississippi and discovering this warrant in a box, in a damp part of that courthouse. and now almost a month later we're talking about this memoir that was apparently not supposed to be released until 2036. but there is some details in this that actually has everyone scratching their head. the woman at the center of this says in the memoir she told her husband that emmett till was not the young man who whistled at her on that day. and she says in this that apparently emmett till, who was being questioned at the time, by these men, smiled and says, yes, it was me. and the family is upset about this because this memoir was not supposed to be released until 2036, but who is going to question all these accounts that were on the inside of this

memoir. look at this in terms of what she also said in this unpublished document. it says i was very surprised when he showed it to me, she's talking about the warrant, the person that filed the kidnapping charges said there was a soft voice in the truck, but they didn't see who it was. i guess the sheriff thought it was me. i was never arrested. and i was -- or charged with anything. john, when you put the pieces of this together, you know there are several people across this country who would like to see carolyn donham arrested, before this crime, and obviously they believe she's connected to it. there is a warrant inside that courthouse that was found just a month ago. but now these new details in this 99-page memoir put together by timothy tyson, historian, people want to see what's on the inside of this. you had several investigations, but even 40, 50 years later, people have not gotten the answers. there has been no justice for emmett till and the family is pushing for it. with this now known, this document, there are so many more questions than answers and hopefully somebody at some point

will get to ask some pointed questions because there are so many more mysteries that is tied to this case at this point. >> that's what the family of emmett till wants. we heard from them not so long ago. ryan, thank you for that. hope you enjoy your day here on the inside. not on the white house lawn. >> i know. i feel bad, you heard those lawn mowers behind amos earlier, that's what we deal with every day. >> cnn's coverage continues right now. very good tuesday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm poppy harlow. glad you're with us. first here on cnn, new details about what we will hear in this week's primetime january 6th hearing. we have learned that former trump national security council official matthew pottinger will testify publicly on thursday evening. so will former white house aide sarah matthews. they both resigned in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th attack. >> pottinger was a senior official in the trump administration, deputy